-Caveat Lector- German Nobel Laureate: Bush "Threat to World Peace" http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2002-12/30/article04.shtml
Grass: Bush resembles a Shakespearean character By Khaled Shmitt, IOL Germany Correspondent BONN, December 30 (IslamOnline) - Renowned German writer Guenter Grass, attacked U.S. president George W. Bush, saying he is a threat to world peace, adding that his actions are based on a disturbed familial atmosphere. In an interview Sunday, December 29, with the German Welt am Sonntag, Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999, said that in the current political situation, the dangerous mix of financial, political and family-related interests have made Bush a truly dangerous politician. Grass, who is a personal friend of German chancellor Schroeder, also said that Bush's personality strikes a resemblance between the new liberalism which the United States presents and the terror which it's fighting against. In addition, Grass, who is dubbed by the German media as the 'German Conscience', felt that there is a resemblance between Bush and one of the Shakespearean characters who had a psychological complex and who only wanted to please his father regardless of the consequences. Grass also said that the higher purpose for the war against Iraq, according to Bush, was to prove to his father that he is able to succeed in what he failed to do during the 1991 war. He also stressed that Bush's intent in creating a conflict in Iraq in this 'boyish manner', especially after waging a war on Afghanistan, will lead to the creation of a new wave of terrorism in the world. Regarding the real reasons behind the war on Iraq, Grass said that economic reasons play an important role because it combines a general, unannounced reason from the United States, which entails the U.S.'s desire to control the oil in Iraq and a private, also unannounced reason which entails saving his family, which controls several large oil companies from the economic crisis which it faces. Grass also said that another reason for the war includes the U.S. obsession with parading itself as the world's only super power which can control the rest of the world, despite the fact that its president lacks the general knowledge concerning these countries. A<:>E<:>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded as information only; everything sent has to stand on its own merits, not on my recommendation. Dissenting ideas are the health of the American system. 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